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Philo 11: Mathematical Logic Labels: thoughts
that is one of my GE's this sem.
it is under the SSP domain.
i have to go all the way up to AS rm. 400A (which is at the 4th floor, obviously) just to be able to attend this one-and-a-half hour class that's worth 3 units.
it starts at 10am and ends at 11:30pm, which is lunchtime for most of us, but apparently not for me.
it has the word MATHEMATICAL in it, and that alone should have been enough reason for me to run around the whole campus screaming "nooooooooo!!!!"
but guess what? i took it anyway.
and i don't regret it. not one bit.
(well, not yet at least :P)
Logic in UP is not like the Logic subjects in other schools which teach "Aristotellian" logic. that logic is best suited for learning theology.
Mathematical Logic, however, is best suited for the sciences.
we've been told that UP is the only university in the Philippines that teaches this kind of logic. (if i am wrong, i apologize, but among the four major universities, it is the only one that teaches mathematical logic)
and this subject is taught by Prof. de Villa...and i like how he teaches this subject.
his favorite line is "...(we can have capabilities) independent of the gods and the deities."
BUT, let me clarify that he has not said anything about denying the existence of a god. he just stresses the fact that we cannot rely on them all the time (if there was anything to rely on), because admittedly, knowing that a low pressure area has appeared somewhere is a better prediction of rain than doing a rain dance for the gods.
yes, i think this sem will be a very interesting one.
very interesting indeed.
One learns many things in UP...perhaps i will finally understand and establish what i truly believe in.
i no longer want to be someone who simply says "yes" to anything that i uncover, be it from a relative, professor, a friend or a priest.
i want to do something not because i have to, but because i want to, at a certain degree, and i have established that it would be the most advantageous move for most people who are concerned with the situation.
mind you, i would not turn into an atheist or an activist just because a lot of people turn out that way when they enter this university or because people tend to expect that from a person in UP.
but i'm not saying it's not possible, either.
my philosophy in life has always been about choices and that one's choice always matters in anything. so, i believe that it's time i stabilize the foundation of what i believe in. i choose what i believe in, no one can tell me what to believe or not.
as of now, i stand firm in my choice to believe in God, despite acknowledging the fact that he/it might not exist.
it's just that the society that shares this belief has blurred the concept of religion for me.
you see politicians, taking from the weak so that they may feed their hunger for wealth and lust for power, then go to mass.
you see people flock together, spend millions to set up an event to praise God, and then see the same people talk about each other behind each other's backs (and the topics are not all nice things, i tell you).
you see people killing each other in the name of their respective gods.
as i've said before, i know that nothing is perfect, not even a community praising a perfect being. but sometimes, this makes it hard to continue.
i think i'm being pessimistic right now. i never was able to think clearly. but still...something is wrong.
i guess it's just that i don't agree with a lot of things that has been taught to us.
call me a disillusioned young one.
but i will understand someday.
for now, my guess is that society is the one responsible for the corruption of the faith of many.
argh, my head hurts.
i don't know if i explained myself clearly, i was never the best at explaining what i thought, but i'd like to think that i'm getting better each day.
sometimes knowing more than what is required is not always a good thing.
i think the world will be plunged into chaos if they suddenly find a way to be able to effectively disprove the existence of God. everything that they have worked for would have been for a being that is non-existent.
but i believe that someone/something does exist...perhaps it's just that our interpretation of how he/she/it acts and moves is wrong. perhaps. we might never know.
but, as prof. de Villa has said, logic is there for us to have better control of our lives. it is not necessarily there to make us thwart our religion entirely.
bah, this post must've been a boring read for you. ah well, glad you finished it anyway :)
*supercalifragilisticexpialidocious*